The search for the Oak Fellowship for Human Rights at Colby College for Fall 2008 will be for a journalist working to promote human rights. The OAK fellowship offers a semester in residence at Colby, giving respite from front line human rights work, a $32K stipend, plus medical insurance, transportation, housing and utilities.For more information please see

Applications forms will be available on line in late August. We will send a formal brochure announcing the fellowship at that time. If you know of individuals who might be deserving of this opportunity or organizations who might be able to assist in identifying candidates, we would appreciate any leads to add to our database for our August mailing. Please send any replies to oakhr@colby.edu .

At the side bar, now you can see on Nothingandall a new system of archive : a calendar archive which substitutes the traditional archive provided by Blogger. This new feature makes easy to navigate throught the posts and looking for former posts and that only was possible thanks Phydeaux 3. That looks great and I’m very happy to have found this.

Q: Birth certificates, why aren’t they being hung on walls like other certificates? You’ve got your distinction certificates, your diplomas, your bachelor degree, your courses, and about every other certificate you have ever received, so why not your birth certificate? When in fact it’s the biggest and most important accomplishment. It’s more important than all the others, actually without this one, the others would have zero chances of existing. So why aren’t you proud of showcasing your birth certificate?

A: I think the reason might be that everyone you know has one too. They were all born, and they all have that certificate. But if that’s the case, then why don’t people hang their death certificates? Everyone else doesn’t have it, yet. So you should feel superior enough. So why won’t you hang that, Ah, you can’t because, first of all, you are dead and even if you somehow could you won’t do it because you won’t be able to brag about it.

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Q: Somehow, it appears that a lot of hotels’ and motels’ rooms hold the ugliest non-comprehensible pieces, and some how they have the audacity to call these crappy things ‘Art’. They buy the cheapest words and copy it a couple of hundred of times and then they hang it on the walls right there for our vulnerable eyes to see. They don’t even warn us. So why is that?

A: Maybe it has a deep hypnotic effect on the subconscious that we don’t know about. Like playing slow relaxing music in supermarkets so people will shop slower and buy more stuff, or playing an upbeat music at factories food halls to hypnotize the workers to eat faster and rush back to work. But what would the effect of those crappy pieces be? Could be to depress the hell out of us so we would go ahead and use the mini bar excessively. Or it would make us so down that we would feel like checking out at all!

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